System and method of solving supply chain campaign planning problems involving major and minor setups

US8965548B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• JDA Software Group, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Narasimha Kamath · Kanchinakote, IN
• Devender Chauhan · Bengaluru, IN
• Deba Kalyan Mohanty · Bengaluru, IN
• Dinesh Damodaran · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 25, 2012
• Grant date: Feb 24, 2015
• Expiry date: Jan 23, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/0875
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system including a computer solves supply chain campaign planning problems involving major and minor setups. The computer is configured to execute a major campaign for two or more of a plurality of major product families and fix an optimal major product family to a major time period on a planning horizon, based at least on aggregated major productivity fractions and calculated second moments of a plurality of two or more major product families. The computer is further configured to execute a minor campaign for two or more minor product families associated with the optimal major product family, obtain a minor productivity fraction of a campaignable resource for the minor product family over at least a portion of a major time period and fix an optimal minor product family from the two or more minor product families to a minor time period based at least on the minor productivity fraction.